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is a character in a film. HAL was also the antagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Google’s plans to build an AI machine is literal and unlike HAL, Google’s AI is hoped to be made to assist much like Siri found on Apple devices. With this in mind, the author’s point of how and AI with a capability reminiscent of HAL doesn’t fit with the idea brought about by Google due to the literal since of a machine with a designated task to assist. Whilst describing online articles, the author notes how online…

symbols throughout the story can also be viewed as interchangeable with each other. In The Minister 's Black Veil, Hawthorne makes it apparent that we all as humans wearing masks or veils. The only difference is that the minister 's veil is quite literal and attests to his guilt while ours are masked. The black veil was worn by Mr. Hooper, the minister, is symbolic representation of the sinful nature of humanity, and is represented in the reactions of the town’s people rather in the minister.…

The idea of the “hero” has evolved in some ways, over 2,000 years. A hero is someone that acts with courage, and is admired for his or her noble actions. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Beowulf examples an epic hero. He slays a dragon, kills literal monsters with his bare hands, and gets glorified with treasures. Although this was back 1500 years ago. Today, heroes can fight intangible forces, and it doesn’t have to be with physical strength. The present day heroes are similar and…

two directions to take; up or down. Vonnegut uses art to portray life as not something to fear or slide by, but to revel in, like one does with art. Art has the power to alter one 's perception of reality and life. This jeopardizes the literal truth that life harbors. Vonnegut writes, "Well if you ever do do that book, you better make my father a saint, because that 's what he was"(112). Arts lies can influence how people view reality. Angela 's proposal to John suggest that John has…

winter would represent death whether it be literal or figurative. The cycle would then repeat and when spring comes around it could represent rebirth in a person’s life and could symbolize a change. On the other hand all of the various seasons could have a large series…

that in legal formalism, the text of the law is meant “to decide whether the right exists,” as they are written in the Constitution (O’Brien 204). By that account, although strict constructionism only reads the text and uses a literal meaning, it still applies the literal intent of the law. For that reason, Judge Posner argues that when using the element of meaning, Judges cannot make their decisions by reading the text directly (O’Brien 207). As Judge Posner states, the Constitution does not…

In a literal interpretation of the text, Beloved may be viewed as a tragic portrait of a female slave-child who suffered from retarded social development. Physically and still literally, though more fantastical, Beloved may be viewed as a ghost or a spirit. In a spiritual interpretation is where Beloved is revealed as a messianic idol. If Beloved is viewed through a spiritual, rather than literal, interpretation, she becomes allegorical to the story of Jesus in much of her history. Literal…

occurrences that stand as a dark time in our world's history. The title of this memoir, Night, is directly correlated with the constant metaphor throughout the book. Night holds a literal, spiritual, and metaphorical meaning describing the night that occurs through Wiesel's record of the holocaust. In Night the literal understanding of the title is the hours in which the sun does not shine also known as the hours between sunset and sunrise. During these hours various significant advancements…

wielded by the author. “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, and “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy, use situational, dramatic, and verbal irony, respectively, to show hidden layers of the poem beneath the literal surface. In “Richard Cory”, the narrator tells the tale of Richard Cory, a man of great wealth and social status. The narrator explains the façade of the wealthy man, who appears cheerful and content with life on the outside, but deprived…

Is the play Oedipus about blindness or light? The play Oedipus Rex concerns itself with both blindness and light, it compares their literal and allegorical interpretations to discuss the main theme of the pursuit of knowledge. It is driven by the titular character Oedipus’ thirst for knowledge that ultimately ends up blinding him. In this essay I will bring into attention different interpretations of blindness and light used in the play and how one must be given up for the other to prevail.…